Chapter 2581 - 1126: Endless Heavenly Ladder (Part 3)
This natural restoration is exceptionally slow, decades, centuries, or even millennia, are possible.
Gaven is now a different person, the means and abilities he can employ are far beyond what he could have imagined before, and he immediately attempts to mobilize his Road Divine Power into it.
Feasible.
The Road Divine Power indeed infused into that crescent soul moon, and the halted moon phase transformation began again, albeit relatively slowly.
Slow is not a worry; Gaven just fears the Tears of Sulun being picky, not accepting his Road Divine Power at all.
This isn’t surprising, as the Moon Divine Position is merely the core divine position of the Moon Goddess, she also possesses a series of extended divine positions like Navigator and Guide, which have certain correlations with the Road Divine Position.
Especially with this Endless Heavenly Ladder, having a stronger correlation with the Road Divine Position, standing alongside Imprint City as the Multiverse’s transfer hub, the latter also known as Gate City.
Both possess large numbers of portals leading to various planes.
If you want to reach a specific plane, you either go to Imprint City to find the corresponding gate and key or try your luck in the Endless Heavenly Ladder to see if you can find a portal leading to that plane.
Crescent moon, gibbous moon, until finally becoming a full moon.
When the full moon hangs over Gaven’s soul, his whole body radiates moonlight, then enters the spiral staircase in front of him.
These wooden stairs visibly transformed, each step seemed meticulously polished, gleaming with a soft metallic luster, embedded with silver patterns, and adorned with exquisite obsidian inlays.
"Did you really open the door?" Taharissi, who had experience using it, recognized immediately, this was a sign of the staircase portal activating.
She only attributed it to the effect of Gaven’s Road Divine Power, without suspecting anything else.
She looked at Gaven with a complex expression, containing not only hatred but also an unhideable fear and awe.
This guy was simply a disaster star in her life; ever since getting involved with him, she had been entangled by the Goddess of Misfortune, with nothing good to speak of.
Was cooperating with him to escape a wise choice?
If discovered, it’d indeed be like muddy water in the pants, indistinguishable.
However, Gaven paid no heed to her thoughts, ascended the steps without a word of greeting.
As he passes, the moonlight glow on those steps gradually fades, returning to wooden stairs.
Clearly, Gaven’s way of opening doors is temporary, unable to last like a true full moon night.
Taharissi couldn’t hesitate any longer, gritting her teeth and stomping her foot, stepping onto the staircase before the moonlight completely dissipated.
Gaven appeared to stroll leisurely, yet his speed was astonishingly fast; the Triple Shadows, initially only half a level behind, despite going full speed, were being left further and further behind, losing sight of him in the blink of an eye.
All that lay before were endless spiral stairs, twisted like a spiral, spiraling upwards.
In the middle, there was a 20-meter-wide hole; reaching a hand over, one could even feel the gentle breeze blowing; sticking one’s head out, whether looking up or down, all there was were endless stairs.
This was the Endless Heavenly Ladder.
Watching Taharissi of the Triple Shadows had entered the Endless Heavenly Ladder, she turned around and went downward, adopting a direction opposite to Gaven.
Their previous cooperation was purely a temporary alliance under the forced circumstances.
Once the objective of escaping Azegrat was achieved, this alliance naturally broke apart; they were still enemies, not friends.
The Endless Heavenly Ladder bears the name "Endless" because its stairs are endless; even if one spent a lifetime, they seemingly would never reach its end.
Under normal conditions, going down leads directly back to Asgrat via the original path.
But this was Gaven’s temporary opening; when Taharissi stepped in, the power enveloping the stairway completely disappeared, the door has closed, and around her, it returned to being the stairs of the Endless Heavenly Ladder, naturally able to go down.
Descending several levels, confirming the temporary door had completely vanished, Taharissi couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
For the time being, she was safe; as long as she remained in the Endless Heavenly Ladder, even Prince Ubar couldn’t harm her.
Like Imprint City, the Endless Heavenly Ladder also didn’t welcome the presence of Divine Power.
Demi-gods, sitting between mortals and gods, are the extreme limit for entering, not even the creator of the Endless Heavenly Ladder, Moon Goddess Sulun, was an exception.
This is to ensure the stability of the Endless Heavenly Ladder; it’s a collection of countless distorted spaces, and if those with Divine Power entered, the absolute law carried with them would disrupt this stability, directly leading to the collapse of the heavenly ladder.
If the stairway collapses, naturally, there’s no way to enter.
However, this collapse is temporary and localized, not causing fatal damage to the Endless Heavenly Ladder, existing as eternally as ever.
Under the presence of Divine Power, Taharissi had absolute confidence that no one could pose a fatal threat to her.
The native creatures of the Endless Heavenly Ladder, merely sensing her aura, would either scamper away in a sorry state or silently lay dormant, not daring to show themselves.
"What a coincidence, want to join?" A young handsome face appeared once again in the vision of the Triple Shadows, smiling gently while asking.
Seeing this familiar face, Taharissi felt a wave of powerlessness surge in her heart—naturally, it wasn’t anyone else, but the Hands of Slaughter she had parted ways with not long ago.
Aside from secretly cursing this as a cursed fate, the Triple Shadows truly had no strength left to retort.
The two were supposed to be going in different directions, one up, one down.
The one going up had somehow appeared in front of her, judging by his stance, he had arrived here for some time.
However, this is not surprising, as the Endless Heavenly Ladder isn’t a staircase in the literal sense, but is formed by countless distorted spaces.
Its shape is multidimensional and isn’t stationary; it’s in constant change.
You might think you’re going up?
Change the angle, and you’re actually going down.
And the reverse is also true.
The Endless Heavenly Ladder is not endless because it has infinite stairs but because the finite stairs are arranged into an infinite array.
The place where he was standing was a staircase platform with standard 5×5 (25 square meters); not only had he set up a small camping tent here, but he also had a pot boiling with food, which looked and smelled delicious, likely spreading across ten floors up and down.
Descending from above, Taharissi knew it was just an imagined illusion.
Before seeing him, she hadn’t smelled any scent, and it wasn’t until stepping onto the staircase platform that the rich aroma of food engulfed her.
Clearly, this staircase platform forms a separate space.